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Now that we have successfully decided to CHANGE as a group, what is the next step? Changing a nation is a lot like changing a person. Number one…no one can change another person. Number two…the person needing change must really, really want to change. That means that they have decided what they are doing isn’t working for them anymore. 

As a nation we have pretty much decided what we don’t want and what is not working for us anymore. The majority really want a change. But what do we want? It isn’t enough to know what we don’t want.

Most of us can conjure up long lists of what we don’t want and rattle it off without even trying. But when you ask someone, “What do you really want for your life?” or “What is your purpose for being here?” they glaze over. As a nation we could glaze over very easily because we haven’t focued our energy deeply into the issues of what we want this nation to look and feel like. We just know what we don’t like.

The new President cannot do all the heavy lifting himself. He can suggest ideas as to how to create wealth on Main Street, end wars, provide universal health care, etc. etc. But unless we take some time and ponder these issues ourselves and maybe even have discussions with friends and colleagues about them, nothing much will be created or change. We will slow the process for lasting change and maybe even get more of what we don’t want!

The icky issue is that each of us is a microcasm of the macrocasm, and that means we each have to solve the wars, economic failures, health issues and social glitches in our personal lives immediately if not sooner!  We expect Obama to ride in as a white knight and wave a wand and heal our critically ill nation/world like Merlin the magician. Not realistic. More wishful thinking.

I hate the fact that I have to take full responsibility for my life and the messes I have made. I have been waiting for Prince Charming, Robin Hood, The Rapture, you name it for decades. I want so badly to think that it really can happen – a miracle on 34th street or whatever. But the reality check is that I have to step up and answer “Present.”  Am I present? Am I aware? Am I conscious? Do I really SEE reality?

The curtain is down on the wizard. Toto (the dog whose name means your EVERYTHING) has pulled it down and exposed the fraud that has been masquarading as our American Dream Life. The shoot out at the OK corral has just finished. Now we as the townspeople or the Munchkins in Oz get to decide what and who we want to run the show. But we have been drunk on greed and materialism just as our leaders have been. We have to sober up, quickly!

We need to step up here and figure out what we want as individuals and what we want as towns and counties and states and nations. That means we probably have to spend less time in front of the TV. We may have to actually meet our neighbors and talk to them about what they want. Wow, what a concept!

In a way we are resurrecting the 60’s without LSD! If we had pulled the drug abuse out of the movement, it would have been exactly what we need today. The 1960’s was about being authentic, loving and aware.  What a great combination. 

I am ecouraged by this mess we have in the US. (For those of you in other countries, I’m sorry you can’t be here in person for this party BUT you can join virtually!). We are on the brink of finding out just how fabulous and absolutely transcendent we really are. Amazing things are about to happen as we discover what we can do when we wake up and actually SEE each other.

I think I may have gone on too long for this post, but I will be back soon for more fun ideas as to how we can literally put Humpty Dumpty back together.  Yes we can!